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One thing I noticed about the new cover athletes for NBA 2K13 is that they were all young, up-and-coming stars. Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin represent the future of the league. In a similar way, that’s what the new game is going to be about. Over the past few years, it has become the dominant basketball franchise on the market thanks to its high quality and a few missteps by EA Sports.

They’ve been the big guy on the block for so long that it’s easy for the team at Visual Concepts to get complacent. But the folks there aren’t taking their success for granted. Producer Rob Jones sees NBA 2K13 as the beginning of a new dynasty, a way for the franchise to continue establishing itself on top.

“The truth is every three or four years, we revolutionize what people think about our basketball games.” He rattles off the best received entries in the series NBA 2K7, NBA 2K11 and NBA 2K12.